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Wow! Your IF are amazing.

Mat

Hooray you're back! Can't wait to see what you do with those goodies.

Thanks guys, unfortunately I haven't got too much time to work on these, but I found a little today

So a small update:

I've finally got my finecast re-replacements and they look way better than he first replacements
So I've started work on the commander for the army, and here's the first WIP pic of him, he's based on the Sicarius model as I always liked his armour and it was the best "show off" cape available. Concerning the Aquila I have chosen to use the shoulderpad as it is written several places that even though the Aquila was not in common use by the legions prior to the heresy, noted heroes and high standing astartes wore it as a sign of their heroic deeds, and it was usually bestowed as an honour mark for extreme valour.

I'm contemplating using him as Sigismund, as I feel he has the right sense of ornamentation, and the description of his looks is also very sparse. It only says he has dark blonde hair and remarks upon his facial features on an overall level. But to be honest I'm not sure I'll give him hair, he might end up being the 2nd company captain, or be the first captain in service before Sigismund, and then have Sigismund as a sergeant or a champion in the commanders command squad as I also bought the emperors champion model, which has potential of being a great Sigismund model as well, and I might go with that option, as it gives me a bit more freedom in making up fluff for the army as it is meant to be set in the middle of the great crusade, just as the mkIV suits were starting to be field tested, and will restrict the army to MK I, II, III and IV suits. The mkI element will be as armour pieces incorporated into newer suits of mkII and III like the torso of my standard bearer.

Anyway, on to the picture:



C&c is more than welcome

These look great! I'll be following along.

*cheer* You're back! Am sure you won't disappoint with the captain.

Nice removal of UM stuff Looks great, tda strikes again!

Love the cut shoulder pad btw, great touch

As an avid lurker on your ad mech, and citing you as a MAJOR inspiration for my own on my plog, (in sig) I will be following this intently, looks lovely so far, the dread particularly. Hope to see more...just dont make it too good or i'll end up copying you here as well. =p

Wooo preheresy IF's ftw! Subscribedd

whalemusic360 wrote:These look great! I'll be following along.

Thanks man, they are the product of about 5 years worth of planning to do a pre-heresy force, so they'll get a lot of love

Swordwind wrote:*cheer* You're back! Am sure you won't disappoint with the captain.

Hehe yeah I'm back, at least for now I have some commissions coming in but will crank some work out on these in between

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Nice removal of UM stuff Looks great, tda strikes again!

Love the cut shoulder pad btw, great touch

Thanks mate It wasn't too hard to remove the iconography (not compared to how hard it was to actually get a descent looking finecast model, I'll be keeping a downlow on buying them from now on...)

J-paint wrote:As an avid lurker on your ad mech, and citing you as a MAJOR inspiration for my own on my plog, (in sig) I will be following this intently, looks lovely so far, the dread particularly. Hope to see more...just dont make it too good or i'll end up copying you here as well. =p

Thanks an, threw a line on your plog, and I've seen your test model around, they look great I can't promise anything about this army though, as it's a project I'd wanted to do for years And the IF's can be linked to the battle for Mars during the heresy so it seemed fitting to make them, as they could then go as allies for my own admech if I like someday

Nrljm wrote:Wooo preheresy IF's ftw! Subscribedd

Yeah, the same feeling I had when deciding my pre heresy army should be IF's XD Hope you'll like the rest of the army as well

Ah interesting, i havn't heard of a link between them, i'm guessing its in the Horus heresy books? And thanks for the plog comment, raises its profile having an ad mech celebrity contribute =p

This is as much a bump as a comment, this deserves to be seen by all =]

J-paint wrote:Ah interesting, i havn't heard of a link between them, i'm guessing its in the Horus heresy books? And thanks for the plog comment, raises its profile having an ad mech celebrity contribute =p

This is as much a bump as a comment, this deserves to be seen by all =]

What a compliment, thank you very much mate

And yeah it's from the HH series, Mechanicum actually, where the Imperial Fists send a relief force to aid the still loyal part of the Adeptus Mechanicus. If you haven't read it already you really should as it's a really great book and its all mechanicus, knights and titans

And finally an update on the progress of Dorn's all star team

First off is a picture of my first tac squad in the process of getting all yellowed up.


Then there's a second tac squad under way, I might eventually upgrade to 10 man squads, but for now they'll only count 5 each.


Then there's a scout squad under way, still need to remove some chest aquillas and add some more detail to them (like the heavy weapon :shifty: )


That's the core troops so far. Before I continue I'd like to sum up the premises for this army as it is important to me to emphasize that this is a PRE-heresy army, which is to say it is to be depicted as an army during the great crusade, prior to the betrayal of Horus Lupercal, and as such will have no traitor elements as there haven't been any dodgy business going on yet (well at least not any chaos related at least ).

I like all the pre-heresy armies around but most of them are described as being pre-heresy even though they include elements from the fluff from the heresy itself, so I find most of them are mislabelled and should be called heresy era armies seeing as they are set in the heresy era itself.

My army is set somewhere in the middle of the great crusade, and theres several reasons for that:

1. I can choose to have members of any of the 18 known legions among my troops and not just the ones that stayed loyal, this is great as I plan on making a few members of different legions appear to mingle with the squads and draw upon the brotherhood inter legion bonding that is referred to in Descent of Angels and Fallen angels.

2. I can make Sigismund before his ascending to first captain (which I have) and have him be the legion champion and the next in line to take up the mantle as first captain when the current first captain will no longer be able to. This is also because I wanted an IF army that didn't have Sigismund as their commander but could still be the first company.

This should help to understand the next pictures as they are rooted strongly in my design premises for the army.

So on with the miniatures:

The command squad:


And sigismund, the champion of the mighty VII Legio Astartes, personal favourite of the Lord Primarch Rogal Dorn.
He acts as both the company champion and sergeant of the sternguard (honour guard)


The legions most revered standard, the Roma, borne by the first company standard bearer.


The company chaplain.


The sternguard, the personal honour guard of the first captain.


And one of the sternguard as I really like how he's turning out.


That's it for now, hopefully I'll have some more updates soon.

Looking pretty amazing mate , your boss sounds like a top bloke too. is the lighter resin bodies self made casts?

Oh wow. Such gorgeous stuff on here... Subbed!

Small update gents

Not much, but the first one is a lysander model

The general idea is that he'll be a commander in terminator armour, having his storm shield and thunder hammer, and probably an extra set of magnetized arms for showing off, maybe a sword or something. The shoulderpad is my prototype from the earlier pics and acts as a stand in atm to get a feel of how he'll look once he's pre-heresy pimped.


And Sigismund finally got his proper shield, a friend of mine hooked me up with some fw brass etch to pimp him out, but he is very BT'ish right now and it'll be toned down with some more IF symbols and some other detail work like some scrolls to cover up the large 'TEMPLARS' on his shield. He's still very much a WIP.


So what do guys think?

Hmm i cant help but feel he looks too BT-ish atm. But you're very welcome to change my mind!

Love the shoulder pad on Lysander, you cant stay away from a cog motif can you?! Speaking of cog motif, where's that brass etch from?

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Hmm i cant help but feel he looks too BT-ish atm. But you're very welcome to change my mind!

Love the shoulder pad on Lysander, you cant stay away from a cog motif can you?! Speaking of cog motif, where's that brass etch from?

Yeah atm he's very BT'ish but it's only because he haven't had his final IF makeover with the last icons and such :p

And no I can't ;P and since the mechanicum have developed the terminator suits I see it fit to have cog motives embedded in the suits And the cog-tooth edging is from the FW etched brass Iron Hands frame

Nice work!

Thanks

A few more updates, just got my hands on another model today which will be used for the army. It's a second hand master of the armoury and he's been stripped clean. Unfortunately he didn't have his sword or the original head, but I wasn't planning on using those parts anyways, he will be a member of the honour guard/sternguard.

Untill I get my next batch of fw parts from ebay he's gonna have this helmet, but he'll probably have it replaced with one of the red scorpion helmets. I have not yet decided how he'll be armed, but a sword could be nice.Also I plan on removing his chest eagle and the crux terminatus on his shoulder to replace with legion symbols instead.


He'll be accompanied by this guy in as the next honour guard model is one I've wanted to do for a long time. He's based on the sergeant Chronus model as I've never liked the actual model, but the armour is just so cool. And seeing as I now had a very nice powerfist for him I found it was time to do the model the justice it deserves. As with all the other models he'll receive some IF iconography and fancy shiney stuff to mark him out as an honoured astartes.


And then I played a bit more with the lysander model, still only tac'ed together as I haven't decided yet how he will finally look.

Long time since I last updated this, but I got a spur of the moment mini built today for the veterans.

Not a difficult conversion at all, but I'd wanted to do a marine with that axe for some time now and this was the pose that kept popping up in my mind. It required me to switch the hand on the handle from a left to a right but it wasn't too hard to do. Hope you like him so far, like the rest of them he'll have a lot more detail when I get around to it




Ohh yeah, and yesterday I had a bit of fun with my razorsaw and some glue :chrome: This was the result:


Still needs some gap filling and some sand before it's ready to paint, and I might ad a few dead pilots to it as well and maybe kit it out a bit to look like a cargo shuttle or something like that

That's it for now, hopefully there'll be more soon

This is a project well worth looking at. The Dread especially is awesome. Keep up the good work man!

Wow. You actually managed to put yours together. My one from the old boxed set is still in glorious pieces.

The vet looks great too. Can't wait to see what you do with the axe.

Haha nice effort tda, that some good engineering right there!

Axe dude looks sick too, badass to the max.

Guardians Eternal wrote:This is a project well worth looking at. The Dread especially is awesome. Keep up the good work man!

Thanks dude, I'll try and keep the standard up I'm currently painting a commissioned GK army to fund my next fw order so these guys can have some more tanks

Swordwind wrote:Wow. You actually managed to put yours together. My one from the old boxed set is still in glorious pieces.

The vet looks great too. Can't wait to see what you do with the axe.

I assume you mean the crashed aquila?? It was actually really fun to cut up and put back together again And thanks for the comment

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Haha nice effort tda, that some good engineering right there!

Axe dude looks sick too, badass to the max.

Thanks mate ;D I've wanted to cut it to pieces for years XD And when I stumbled over one for practically no money at all I took the shot and fed it to my razorsaw.

Update time!

I've had time to do some more modelling and have actually managed to finish my mk II land speeder and have it undercoated I also bought some goodies to update my chaplain, and have also updated my apothecary.

Chaplain:

I have fiwed the miscast collar and the stud on his shoulder with some green stuff, but not until after I took the pictures.


Apothecary:

Some more progress on the legions senior medic, he still needs some green stuff work.

And a picture of a building I'm working on for a CoD table, once it's finished and this army is too I'll have a load of pics taken of the army in urban surroundings.



And now for my little love project, my Mk II landspeeder:

It's built from a mix between a land speeder storm and a regular land speeder with the seats and engine exhausts from an original 2nd ed land speeder. There's also parts from numerous other kits in there, I'll give it a rundown if any one is interested.
It will be put on a 60mm base in style with the one on my contemptor, and I might build something elaborate on the base since there won't be any models standing directly on it.














Next week I'll get my tartaros terminators, and I'll try and have an update ASAP with them

That's it for now, I'll have to get back to commission work again so I can fund some more yellow armour!

Please build a step by step for the land speeder conversion. I need some of these in my life.

^ My thoughts entirely!

@tda: Lovely chaplain indeed, very nice cutting you've done there

The terrain looks ace as is usual for you., This part of the same set you were doing a while back with the titans?

That land speeder is beyond awesome. You've done as good a job as FW bringing the old design into a new aesthetic. Im guessing the autocannon is stand in for asscan? Glad you're gonna put it on a 60mm. I cant stand the clear flying bases myself. The etched brass details (i presume) stand out as particualrly cool too.

Truffle wrote:Please build a step by step for the land speeder conversion. I need some of these in my life.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:^ My thoughts entirely!

@tda: Lovely chaplain indeed, very nice cutting you've done there

The terrain looks ace as is usual for you., This part of the same set you were doing a while back with the titans?

That land speeder is beyond awesome. You've done as good a job as FW bringing the old design into a new aesthetic. Im guessing the autocannon is stand in for asscan? Glad you're gonna put it on a 60mm. I cant stand the clear flying bases myself. The etched brass details (i presume) stand out as particualrly cool too.

Thanks guys, I unfortunately forgot to take pictures while building it and I don't plan on building another as it wasn't cheap nor particularly easy to build but I will happily make a description of how I built it

@Vitruvian:
I sold most of the terrain you refer to unfortunately, and this piece is for a 4'x6' table for my local gaming club It will be more structured as I am designing and building the entire table and have made it possible to vary the layout of the table. Toss me a pm and I'll send you a link to the pictures
I'm gladyou like the speeder, and yeah I suppose if it ever sees a game the auto cannon will act as an assault cannon, but just in case I magnetized it The flying base will be exchanged because I feel exactly as you, I utterly hate the weird disc...

Oh that is a shame.

I suppose i shall have to be content with a description then!

Table sounds very interesting indeed.

I can't help but notice that some of your models have a very dark grey resin. Are they recast bots off eBay by any chance?